Bottle-seal.



Y PATENTED D1305, 19o5.-

E. J. BROOKS. BOTTLE-SEAL.

APPLICATION FILED AUG. 30, 1905.

WGJJes: W Xvi/44% W6 EDWARD J. BROOKS, or EAST Omen-NEW JERSEY.

1'0 all whom it may concern Be it known that I, EDWARD J; BROOKS, a

citizen of the UnitedStates of America, and

a resident of East Orange, in the State of New Jersey, have invented'a new and useful .Improvement in Bottle Seals, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to means-for securing the closures of bottles; jugs, demijohns, carboys, and the like; all. of which are herein termed bottles, against violation by insuring the detection of any tampering therewith.

The present invention is; more particularly.

additional to the improvement in bottle-seals described and .claimed in my specification forming part of United States Letters Patent,

'No. 794,849, dated July 18., 1905, and to that species represented by'Figures 3 and 40f the drawings referred to in said specification.

The present invention consists in certain novel combinations of, parts hereinafter described and claimed. Its objects are toiadapt a skeleton bottle-seal for use in connection with caps of any approved kind more securely depressed'within the-mouth or the bottle, to

adapt the seal to interlock in an effective man-.

ner with a shoulder atthe lower extremity of the head of the bottle, and to adapt the improved seal to be made in quantities at a low cost.

' fication as part thereof.-

the same,-and Fig. 4; is'a sectional'view of a in all the figures.

.Figs.1 and 2 are'respectively top and bottom views of the improved bottle-seal as it leaves the factory. Fig. 3 is a' side view of bottle provided with the improved seal.

Like reference characters refer to like parts The improved bottle sealshowndetached by Figs. 1, 2, and Sand at Ain Fig. 4is combined in use with a bottle B- ofany kind having a depressed cap-supporting surface 1 within its mouth some distance below its lip 2, a circumferential shoulder 3 at the lower extremities of its head, and a relatively contracted neck 4. It is'also combined in use witha cap C, Fig. 4,

adapted to rest upon said depressed surface 1 and to serve as the closure of the bottle or to supplement a cork D or other approved main stopper beneath the same. Such cap 0 may be of paper, cork, wood, metal, or other ap proved material. V.

The improved seal, to which the novelty of the invention is confined, comprisesa flexible shackle a, of wire or the like, a compressible Specification of Letters Patent. 7' Application filed August 30, 1905. Serial No. 2.76.381.

A sheetof drawings accompanies this speci-f BOTTLE-SEAL.

Patented. Dec. 5, 1905.

seal part b, of suitable soft metal, known as lead,-cfast on one end of said shackle and perforated for the passage of the other shackle end there'through, and a pair of stamped strips 0 and d, of tin-plate (tin) or other sufli-' cientlystifi' sheet metal, which are the prinlength and are there fixedly united with each other by a plurality of eyelet-punchings 5,. extending-through both strips. Before they are so united each strip isprovided with a pair of deep indentations forming projections 6 to contact with the cap G on both sides of the intersection of the strips, alsowith permanent bends 7 and 8, fitted, respectively, to the lip 2 cipal partsand are of one and the same pattern. Said strips 0 and d cross each other at mid-- and shoulder 3 of the size and style of bottle for which a given pattern of seal is intended,

and, finally, with extremities 9, having outwardly projecting staples lointegral therewith, through which the shackle a extends.

The parts'of the seal are conveniently united with each other, as in Figs. 1, 2, and 3, at the factory, and the seal A as a wholeis quickly applied tothe filledbottle B, as in Fig. 1, at

the bottling establishment. -With'the deipressed cap C in place the seal A is slipped over the head of the bottle, the free end of Y the shackle at is threaded through the seal part hand the shackle 'is drawn taut, and a, seal- S press is then applied to the seal part I), so as to permanently fasten thesame and to provide the seal partwith adistinguishingpressl I mark, (represented by H in Fig. 4:.) In the fastened device, Fig. 4:, the projections 6 of I the seal-strips c and d contact with the top of the depressed cap 0, their bends 8 embrace the shoulders 3 of the bottle-like hooks, and dis-. engagement of said bends is'prevented by the interaction of the seal part b, shackle a, and

strip extremities 9. In opening the bottle the shackle a is cut or broken, and the seal part b examined to determine the integrity of the contents.

The shackle a-and seal part b may obviously beof any known or improved make, and other like modifications will suggest themselves to those skilled in the art.

Having thus-described said improvement, I claim as my invention anddesire to patent under this specification- 1. A bottle-seal having, in combination with a flexible neck-embracing shackle, and a seal part for inseparably uniting the ends'of said shackle, a pair oE'cap-forming strips crossed at mid-length and each provided with deep in- IIO dentations on both sides of their intersection forming projections to contact with a disk within the mouth of the bottle and permanent bends adapting them to interlock with a shoulder at the lower extremity of the head of the bottle, and further provided at their lower ends with means whereby they are interlocked with said shackle.

2. Abottle-seal having, in combination with a flexible neck-embracing shackle, and a seal part for inseparably uniting the ends of said shackle, a pair of cap-forming strips crossed and united with each other at mid-length and each provided with deep indentations on both sides of their intersection forming projections to contact with a disk within the mouth of the bottle and permanent bends adapting them to interlock with a shoulder at the lower extremity of the head of the bottle, and further provided at their lower ends with means whereby they are interlocked with said shackle.

3. A bottle-seal having,- in combination with a flexible neck-embracing shackle, and a seal part for inseparably uniting the ends of said shackle, a pair of cap-forming strips crossed and fixedly united with each other at midlength and each provided with deep indentations on both sides of their intersection forming projections to contact with a disk within the mouth of the bottle and permanent bonds adapting them tointerlock with a shoulder at the lower extremity of the head of the bottle, and further provided at their lower ends with outwardly-projecting staples integral with the strips through which said shackle extends around the neck of the bottle below said shoulder, substantially as hereinbefore specified.

EDWARD J. BROOKS.

Witnesses:

M. E. KANALEY. THEODORE D. GOTTLIEB. 

